Hm... Does Amadeus count? It's maybe 30 years old by now, but it's rarely discussed on this thread. Amazing film, and very much about the writing of music. If you're good at what you do, what happens when you meet someone great? Would you be honored to be in the presence of true genius? Or would it drive you to .... murder?

Would Ray and Walk the Line be musicals? I like both of them in addition to High Fidelity, Empire Records and Blues Bros. #1 might have to go to The Commitments though. I love that movie. Andrew Strong really kills it with his voice.

I would say O Brother, Where Art Thou? is also a great example. The music is not just in the movie, it's ingrained in the plot and alive in any scene it's present in but the movie is definitely not a musical.

Oh, there's a bunch of good ones. Blues Brothers (some parts could be described as musical-ish, however), School of Rock, Walk Hard (bonus of being absolutely fucking hilarious, plus John C. Riley is as talented a musician as he is an actor), and Nashville are great movies with some excellent musical performances.

High Fidelity is worth watching for the musically-focused conversations.

And the plot isn't "based around music" but I think that Animal House should get an honorable mention because the soundtrack is great, fits the movie perfectly, and has a couple really good musical performances.

John C Reilly may be one of the few guys who we could actually see successfully accomplish the EGOT. He has his Grammy and Oscar, has been nominated for a Tony and with the way big actors have flocked to TV, an Emmy is hardly out of reach.

John C. Reilly never won a Grammy or Oscar only nominations for each. He's never been nominated for a Tony.

I'd say he has virtually no chance for a Grammy again unless he gets another film role for which he writes a song (with three other guys in the case of Walk Hard). I'm not familiar with him doing any stage work which would rule out a Tony.

Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny was based around the album they released at the same time(also titled Pick of Destiny), tho not explicitly a musical. The album makes much more sense if you saw the movie compared to listening to it on its own.

I watched I'm Not There last night. As a big Dylan fan I found the movie quite interesting, but I can't imagine how people who are unaware or uninterested in Dylan's music would enjoy the movie at all.

I agree, with Almost Famous, definitely my favorite. Also, Walk the Line and Dirty Dancing if that counts, and maybe Footloose, I feel like there are a lot I'm probably forgetting, I can't think of them!

The Music Never Stopped - from Wikipedia: "The film tells the father-son relationship between Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his son, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci), who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. Henry, with his son unable to shed light on their strained relationship, must connect with him through music."

An amazing film about an estranged father-son relationship, a brain tumor, and the Grateful Dead.